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Sullivan, Leon b. October 16, 1922 d. April 24, 2001
He was a minister and civil rights leader whose relentless crusade for U.S. divestiture from South Africa helped put an end to the policy of apartheid. His honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, and 50 honorary degrees. PBS produced a documentary on his life entitled "A Principled Man."
Cause of death: Leukemia
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Tritle, Frederick Augustus b. August 7, 1833 d. November 18, 1906
Arizona Territorial Governor. He attended the local schools in his home town and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Starting in 1855 he began an almost constant move toward and around the west. He first moved to Des Moines Iowa and then to Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 1859 he moved to California and then to Nevada, where he married in 1862. In 1863 he moved to Virginia City, Nevada where, in 1867, he organized a mining company. He became the first member of the Nevada Senate in 1866. He was the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Section 7, Block 10, Lot 1, Space 6
GPS coordinates: 33.2726898, -112.0665817 (hddd.dddd)
Victor, Alexander F. b. June 20, 1878 d. March 29, 1961
Inventor. In the summer of 1897, he immigrated to New Jersey, rented a vacant store and operated two melodrama film companies. In 1908, he went to work at Edison Laboratories and developed a motorized washing machine for the White Lily Washing Machine Company of Davenport, Iowa. With his interest more in film reproduction, he pioneered ideas for motion-picture equipment using images on discs. Obtaining funding from the White Lily Company, he formed the New Victor Animato-Graph Company that...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Weaher, Andrew J. b. May 22, 1842 d. August 27, 1920
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the U.S. Army in Company B, 8th U.S. Cavalry. He was awarded the CMOH for action between August 13, 1868 and October 31, 1868 in the vicinity of the Black Mountains, Arizona Territory. His citation reads "Bravery in scouts and against Indians. (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Wilson, Eloise Fox b. 1898 d. August 14, 1948
Hall of Fame Rodeo Star. She ran away from her convent school at age 14 and married Paul Raymond "Mike" Hastings, a famous rodeo bulldogger who taught her the "ropes" of the rodeo world. She began her rodeo career competing on bucking horses and in trick riding matches. She dropped the name Eloise and became Fox Hastings, which the press loved. Outside the rodeo world she couldn't vote, but inside she was almost an equal to the men. Women in rodeo were the first professional athletes and earned...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Winchell, Walter b. April 7, 1897 d. February 20, 1972
Gossip columnist. He was the inventor of the gossip column and then took it to the national airways in 1932 with the distinctive greeting: 'Good Morning, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea...let's go to press!' He was born Walter Weinschel in New York City to Russian immigrants subjected to extreme poverty by a father who barely contributed to the upkeep of the family forcing him to work at an early age at the expense of an education. With some musical ability, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Section 17, Lot 6, 11-3

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